The Seed Field

Big Idea: Decolonizing Mental Health Education

Episode Summary

Insights drawn from interviews with seven Antioch faculty members who have firsthand experience decolonizing counseling, psychology, and therapy.

Episode Notes

As mental health professionals grapple with racism and exclusion in some of their foundational texts and concepts, a movement of reformers is working to decolonize the field. But what does that look like? And how will it impact our communities? In this episode we gather the voices of seven different faculty members from across Antioch University’s counseling, psychology, and therapy programs—and hear their insights into this important work. 

This Big Idea episode pulls clips from interviews with Jude Bergkamp, Beth Donahue, Mariaimeé Gonzalez, Catherine Lounsbury, Mariela Marin, Amy Morrison, and Syntia Santos Dietz. We invite you to listen to the full interview episodes featuring these faculty members:

Visit Antioch’s website to learn more about the Clinical Mental Health Counseling programs in which Catherine Lounsbury, Mariaimeé Gonzalez, and Syntia Santos Dietz teach, the MA in Clinical Psychology in which Mariela Marin teaches, the PsyD in Clinical Psychology in which Jude Bergkamp teaches, and the Art Therapy concentration in which  Amy Morrison and Beth Donahue teach.

This episode was recorded February 20, 2024 via Descript and released February 28, 2024.